view from the present
view from the present
drmollytov
an extended meditation on presence
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Just got a note in my work inbox: There's a spread of Chick-fil-A in the break room, courtesy of the franchise that just opened its doors next to our district admin building. I cannot eat Chick-fil-A. I have celiac disease, and those...
I will grant you that "we have too many books to fit on shelves" is a good problem to have. BUT. It also means I am mega-weeding the fiction right now, which also requires me to remove every weeded book from the database by hand, which...
My grandmother loved Groundhog Day. She always felt it was a holiday that "didn't get enough love," so she made a huge deal of it. She sent flowers to all her friends and made a big dinner - which, of course, always ended with the family...
I swear (I assume) I'll get back to having Actual Thoughts soon. There's just a ton of reading about AI in education that is stuck in my head right now, trying to turn itself into...something. Meanwhile, this thread about cyberpunk food...
No, really, that's what it's called: Fruity Game I found it on F-Droid last night while seeing if anyone has made a version of Fruit Ninja that hasn't been thoroughly enshittified in the name of PROFIT$ yet. And I was going to blog about...
Today I installed Windows 10 on the household's newest laptop. Said laptop has to run Windows so we can run Pyware, but I refuse to live with the billionaire-spyware that Windows 11 has become. I wanted to install Windows 7, but too many...
Like many of my fellow Americans, I am currently buried under a lot of snow, ice, and freezing temperatures. I have been home since Wednesday afternoon, amusing myself during snow days. At some point, I thought it would be fun to write a...
A lot of unspoken assumptions underlie the whole "AI thing" right now. But I think the biggest is that LLMs think like we do. We jump to this conclusion almost immediately, because LLMs generate plausible-reading text. The LLM sounds...
My 2.3 devoted readers may remember how a deer totaled my 2009 Corolla, forcing me to purchase a replacement vehicle: welcome home, Car Car Car The replacement, a 2015 Prius, is working great, mostly. I'm never going back to a full gas...
Spending my work-adjacent time reading the Rochester Provocations, a series of eight statements about AI intended to provoke conversation about how schools respond to generative AI: the Rochester Provocations I feel provoked to converse....
You ever read one of those quotes that somehow doubles the size of the universe? This morning it was: “Transhumanism is about how technology will eventually help us overcome the problems that have, up until now, been endemic to human...
I’m currently reading Marion Nestle’s What to Eat Now and Shoshanna Zuboff’s Surveillance Capitalism at the same time (the former for enjoyment and the latter for research). The juxtaposition is convincing me of one thing: We live in a...
Title says it: Over the winter break, I rewatched Season 1 of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers because my inner eleven-year-old wanted to, and I wanted something that required absolutely no thought or insight. Win-win. I was obsessed with...
One of my students recently got into Fallout 4 (thanks, Prime), and they are talking my ear off about the game. It's actually fun to listen to. I don't play a lot of video games; instead I tend to find a game I like and play it to death....
It's a gross, rainy, wet, muddy day here on the World's Tiniest Farm. But I needed carrots and it's about to be a gross, snowy, icy, muddy night and rest of week here, so I picked up my spade and went out to the front garden to get some....